NAEB newsletter (June 1957)

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NEWSLETTER

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS
14 GREGORY HALL URBAN A, ILLINOIS

NAEB and the OHIO STATE AWARDS

NAEB member’s radio programs walked off with
many of the Ohio State Radio Awards this year.

The University of Chicago won a first award in
the special interest group of programs heard na¬
tionally for “The Sacred Note,” a program of religious
music. “To Make Men Free,” produced by WUOM,
University of Michigan, won first in the special in¬
terest programs heard regionally. “America On
Stage,” produced by WHA, University of Wisconsin,
won honorable mention in the cultural category.

NAEB members almost made a clean sweep in the
field of in-school programs. First award for primary
programs went to WYNE, New York’s Board of Ed-
ucation Station for “Tales from the Four Winds.”
Two honorable mentions in the same class went to
“Story Time,” by WOSU, Ohio State, and “Old
Tales and New” by Minnesota’s School of the Air
and KUOM, University of Minnesota. The latter also
won a first award for in-school intermediate programs
with “Let’s Take a Look at Our Minnesota and It’s
People.”

For local stations, first award in the special in¬
terest category went to “In Spirit and In Truth” by
WAER, Syracuse University. Honorable mention in
cultural programs was given to “Behind the Scenes
in Music” by WNYC, New York, and the National
Orchestral Association, Inc.

Winning first in the children’s out-of-school pro¬
grams was the University of Michigan’s Department
of Speech and WWJ, Detroit, for “Down Story Book
Lane.” Honorable mention in the same class went to
“Little Orchestra Society Children’s Concerts” by
WNYC and the Little Orchestra Society.

For locally aired in-school programs for primary
grades, “Just Why Stories,” KSLH of the St. Louis
Board of Education, and “Fun and Fancy - Listen
Awhile,” by the Stanislaus County Schools in Mo¬
desto, California, and KBEE, won honorable men¬
tions.

NAEB Newsletter
Vol. XXII, No. 6
June, 1957

NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the
National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 14 Gregory
Hall, Urbana, III., $5 a year, edited by Mrs. Judith Stevens.
Application for 2nd class mail privileges pending at Urbana,
Illinois.

First award in the intermediate grade category
went to “What’s News” produced by the School Dis¬
trict of Philadelphia and WFIL. Honorable mention
went to “Music for You,” by the South Dakota
School of the Air and KUSD, University of South
Dakota.

“Out of the Past - Listen Awhile,” produced by
the aforementioned Stanislaus County Schools, won
first award for in-school programs for junior and
senior high level. Honorable mention went to “Tales
from Medicine Lodge and Kiva” by the Indiana
School of the Sky, Indiana University. Many of these
fine programs can be heard now over the NAEB
Radio Network.

We were also pleased to note the many awards
won by NAEB members in TV. Leading all stations
as top winner was KQED, San Francisco, for “Hop,
Skip and Dance,” “The American Economy,” and
“Personal and Social Adjustment.”

The University of Wisconsin’s “Friendly Giant”
won its third first place award. Other NAEB TV
stations winning Ohio State Awards were: WOI-TV,
WGBH-TV, WQED, WKNO-TV, WTTW, and
KETC.

—NAEB—

The Fund for Adult Education has announced the
1958-59 fellowship and scholarship program for the
mass media. Applicants write for further information
to: Leadership Training Awards (Mass Media), The
Fund for Adult Education, 320 Westchester Avenue,
White Plains, New York.

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Total AM stations ■

■ 3031

(includes

36

non-commercial)

Total

FM stations ■

- 660

(includes

131

non-commercial)

Total

TV stations •

• 539

(includes

24

non-commercial)

GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT

—Burton Paulu

The spring meeting of the Institute for Education by
Radio-Television provides us of NAEB with our best
chance of the year to get together, except for our own
annual convention.

As those of you who went to Columbus last month
know, a good many NAEB activities were scheduled
in connection with the Institute, and many of our
members contributed in an important way to the In¬
stitute, itself. To start off, the NAEB Board of Di¬
rectors met for several hours Monday evening, May
6, and during most of May 7.

Wednesday noon, under the capable direction of
Gale Adkins, ably assisted by Gertrude Broderick and
other members of the Utilization Committee there
was an NAEB-sponsored luncheon at which Dr.
Alexander J. Stoddard addressed a capacity group of
150. Then came an afternoon session on utilization
arranged by NAEB, in the tradition begun by AERT
in previous years. These first fruits of the NAEB-
AERT merger were very successful.

Wednesday evening the Organizational Liaison
Committee had a dinner at the Maramour Restau¬
rant, attended by our officers and headquarters staff,
and representatives of some of the broadcasting and
audio-visual education groups with which we have
frequent professional contacts. Special guests in¬
cluded Don McGannon of the Westinghouse Broad¬
casting Company, one of the speakers at the opening
session of the Institute, and Dr. and Mrs. I. Keith
Tyler. On Thursday noon we held' an NAEB
luncheon and open business meeting, with short re¬
ports from officers, committee chairmen, and head¬
quarters personnel.

In addition to these NAEB-arranged meetings,
there were many Institute sessions in which our mem¬
bers had major roles. There were many NAEB com¬
mittee meetings, too. For example, the Professional
Advancement Committee met all day Saturday to
draw up plans for the Television Management Sem¬
inar scheduled for Allerton House on August 20-25.

On Saturday and Sunday, a number of ETV sta¬
tion managers and program directors went from
Columbus to Ann Arbor for a meeting of ETRC af¬
filiates. On Tuesday afternoon, May 14, the NAEB-
ETRC Liaison Committee met with ETRC Presi¬
dent Harry Newburn.

It seems to me that NAEB’s contributions to the
Institute were outstanding. What do you think?
Nevertheless, I’d like to hear from all NAEB officers
and members as how we might better organize our
contributions to future IERT meetings. At the same
time, let’s look forward to our own convention from
October 30 to November 2. Let our motto be: “See
you in St. Louis!”

MEMO FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

—Harry Skornia

This month, like May, is a busy one for your Head¬
quarters staff. The Radio Programming Seminar was,
indeed, a great success. So, we believe, will be the
Seminar to be held in late August for ETV station
Managers and Directors which we are working on
now.

The assistance given the whole movement by the
generosity of Foundations like the W. K. Kellogg and
Ford Foundations would be difficult to exaggerate,
for they have provided many of the essential rungs
in the ladder to what we. hope will one day be a
strong national movement of which the entire Ameri¬
can public will be aware and proud.

The Board meeting at Columbus was well-at¬
tended and expeditiously handled. President Paulu
will undoubtedly report more fully on that.

The evening of May 9 and a part of May 10,
Frank Schooley and I spent with Dr. Maurice Seay
of the Kellogg Foundation in discussions of our pro¬
gram and general possibilities for the future. We were
graciously received, had a fine discussion, and had
the pleasure of spending some time with Dr. Emory
Morris, President of the Kellogg Foundation.

Frank Schooley, as Foundation Committee Chair¬
man, has more recently conferred with Ford Founda¬
tion officials on plans for the future, and we have
reason to believe that these conferences, too, were
both pleasant and useful to all concerned’.

Because of our crowded agenda, we were forced to
miss the NAEB’s IERT luncheon on Thursday of that
week. From all we’ve heard, however, it was a suc¬
cess, and Harold Hill more than adequately handled
the Headquarters reporting provided for those in at¬
tendance.

I know that the Wednesday NAEB luncheon and
the Liaison Committee meeting, handled by Gale
Adkins and Gertrude Broderick, respectively, were
enthusiastically received. One of the highlights of the
former, as we expected, was the address of Dr. Alex¬
ander Stoddard of the Fund for the Advancement of
Education.

The Institute was also generally agreed to be an¬
other very successful one, and we were pleased to
note, once again, the number of awards won by

NEWSLETTER

NAEB members in the International Exhibition con¬
ducted in connection with it each year. We believe
this speaks well for the constantly rising quality of
our output and efforts, as well as increasing rec¬
ognition of the service we provide.

The Individual Membership fliers sent out by
Frank Schooley are beginning to bring in a significant
number of new members from the staff of members
institutions. Has your staff sent yours in yet?

As you have perhaps heard, Fred Siebert, Di¬
rector of the School of Journalism at Illinois, and long¬
time NAEB friend, has resigned to accept a similar
appointment at Michigan State. We shall miss him
seriously here, but we’re glad to see that he’s going to
a good school (our alma mater), and we wish him
Godspeed and all success. MSU is getting a mighty
fine scholar and gentleman.

Within the next few weeks: UNESCO National
Commission Meeting for new appointees, an ad¬
dress at the Indiana University Audio-Visual Educa¬
tion Conference, and then, we hope, vacation.

Our thanks for the many kind words many of you
have taken the trouble to pass on to members of the
staff. They greatly appreciate them, as I do, and we’ll
all try to continue to deserve the support of the fine
membership which “the NAEB” represents. Have a
good summer!

NETWORK NEWS

—Bob Underwood

The Radio Network School Committee has met and
selected the offering for the 1958-59 school year. This
offering will be distributed during the fall and winter
of this year while the 1957 offering is being aired.

The Committee held its deliberations in the Del
Prado Hotel, Chicago, May 31 and June 1, at which
time they discussed additional major points relative
to in-school broadcasting. A report of the meeting
and details of the new offering will be announced
later.

We were quite pleased at the number of sub¬
missions we had this year for the in-school offering.
Naturally, not all of them could be chosen; network
production capacity would not permit it. However,
on behalf of the School Committee, I want to thank
those who sent in series, and remind everyone that
submissions for next year’s offering will be accepted
at any time.

If you get your submissions in early, the Com¬
mittee’s work will be easier, as will the Network staff’s
job of dubbing your audition tape for listening by
Committee members.

The offering for the third quarter is currently in
distribution, and we trust those stations remaining on

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Radio-TV
ext. 6661

University Broadcasting Service
Ext. 7-4831

WPSR 90.7 me
(Evansville)

School City of Evansville
Claude B. Smith
Director of Radio,

200 N. W. 7th St

Evansville, Ind. 4-5492

76-5571

GR-6-5571

1440 kc

500 w Night

1370 kc

WWWS (FM) 91.3 me
(Greenville) 3 kw
East Carolina College
Miss Roulston, Station Manager
Greenville, N. C.

WRFK (FM) 91.1 me
(Richmond) lOw
Union Theological Seminary
in Virginia,

Robert White Kirkpatrick
Director, Audio Visual Center
3401 Brook Road
Richmond 27, Va.

School City of Evansville

St. Louis Public Library
(St. Louis)

Charles B. Gilbert Television
Producer 1301 Olive St.
St. Louis 3, Mo.

State University Teachers

College

(New Paltz)

William L. Millard
Ass't Prof. Educ.

New Paltz, N. Y.

Raymond D. Cheydleur
Ext. 4831 & 2351
Ext. 7-4831 & 7-2351

Milwaukee Public Library
Serials Section

814 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee 3, Wise.

Broadway 6-7578

WWWS (FM) East Carolina
College,

Greenville, North Carolina

the air during the summer have placed their orders.
We attempted to maintain a full schedule for the sum¬
mer months, although about one-fourth of the stations

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do not take Network service then. Naturally, your
comments on our summer programming will be ap¬
preciated.

I really am sorry I didn’t get a chance to meet
and talk with more Network people at the recent
IERT meeting in Columbus, but if you were there
you know how fast the time passes. I truly hope at
least one representative from each Network station
can manage to come to the NAEB convention in St.
Louis this fall. Make plans for it now; the dates are
October 29 - November 1. I’ll be seeing you there.

With the summer offering now in distribution, our
thoughts are turning to the fall offering for this year
and the winter offering for 1958. We could stand
some more submissions for these offerings; so if you
have one or more good program series scheduled for
either or both of these periods, be sure to send them
in. There are a lot of submission forms; don’t hesitate
to write for some.

RADIO MEN REPORT

Henry Bartkowski of WSPE, Griffith Institute and
Central School in Springville, N.Y., sent a program of
his FM station’s activities. The station serves the
community with a signal of 15-25 miles and is the
focus of activity for the high school radio-speech pro¬
gram. Students have an opportunity to work and give
speeches in a professional radio atmosphere.

Harry Brawley, of WCHS in Charleston, W. Va.,
wrote to tell about the WCHS-Morris Harvey College
Radio Classroom. They are now completing their 7th
year offering credit courses over radio. Latest station
figures are:

Number of courses offered 25

Total enrollment 1186

Average per class 47.45

Let’s have some more response from active radio men
for the Newsletter!

HAIL AND FAREWELL

—Mrs. Judith Stevens, Editor

This Newsletter marks my last session as Editor, and
I’m taking this opportunity to thank all of you for
your comments and criticism of my work.

My successor, Hans Massaquoi, who is taking
over the Editorship this summer, will undoubtedly
appreciate your interest as much as I have. Be sure
to keep the news coming; and pictures, please!

Thanks again for all the help and encouragement
you’ve given me. It’s been a rewarding experience,
and a very pleasant one.

REPORT FROM REGION II

The NAEB Region II meeting was held in Columbus
May 7. Several topics were discussed, among them
the idea of a regional radio program exchange among
and between Region II stations. The problems of
radio-TV relationships, cooperative multi-station pro¬
gram series production for the tape network, and
NAEB membership status were also discussed.

Members present were: Vernon Bronson, Dade
County Board of Public Instruction; Ed Wegener,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Raymond Cheydleur,
Florida State University; Stephen Buell, Marshall
College; Rae Weimer, University of Florida; Kenneth
Wright (ETRC), University of Tennessee; John
Young, University of North Carolina; Graydon Aus-
mus, University of Alabama; Lucille Ruby, Louisiana
State University; and Robert Schenkkan, University
of Texas.

The meeting was also attended by: Harold Hill,
Bob Underwood and Cecil Bidlack of NAEB, Ralph
Steetle of JCET, and Seymour Kreiger of the Wash¬
ington legal staff of JCET.

UNESCO AND TV

UNESCO became interested in TV in 1951, and called
an Advisory Committee of TV Experts from 8
countries to help in its work. The Committee rec¬
ommended UNESCO enter the TV field because of
the widespread influence TV was gaining and its
possibilities of serving the cause of world peace.

UNESCO is now serving as a clearing house for
TV information, promoting the use of TV for
educational purposes, and promoting international co¬
operation among TV organizations and producers or
distributors of educational films. It also assists
countries planning or starting TV broadcasting and
promotes the production of TV programs on
UNESCO and UN teams.

In short, UNESCO serves as a world source of
TV information, as a source of ideas about its cultural
or educational use, and as a source of material for
cultural program production.

AWARDS

► Two educational broadcasting stations won the
Alfred P. Sloane Radio-TV Awards for 1956, given
for the best traffic safety programs.

WKAR, Michigan State, produced “You Are the
Jury,” a distinguished radio series combining audience
participation with expert technical analysis to clarify
many common traffic programs.

WTTW, Chicago’s ETV station, telecast a 15-
week series called “The Man Behind the Wheel.”
The program represented a successful pioneering
effort to teach techniques and principles of good
driving over TV.

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NEWSLETTER

FCC ACTIONS

► The FCC has voted to consider a revised plan for
authorizing new TV stations. In general, the new plan
would disregard the present fixed city-by-city table
of TV channel assignments.

The Commission said the assignment table, pub¬
lished in 1952, had served its purpose of getting a
nationwide TV system into operation in orderly steps,
and that a more flexible procedure is now possible.
They, invited comment on the idea, to be submitted
by June 3, after which they will proceed to final con¬
sideration of the change.

The proposal would not affect any of the fixed
channel assignments reserved in specified locations
for noncommercial, educational outlets, and could
not. be applied to areas within 250 miles of the Can¬
adian and Mexican borders where the assigned chan¬
nels are tied to international agreements.

► The University of Washington’s radio station
KUOW, operating on educational FM channel 213,
asked the FCC for authority to change over to com¬
mercial channel 235.

NEWS OF MEMBERS

GENERAL

► Expansion in TV teaching and rehearsing facilities
has been made in the Radio-TV-Film Department of
the University of Miami by installation of a Dage
closed-circuit vidicon TV system.

The University of Miami still has classes and pro¬
grams at elaborate commercial station WTVJ, but
new equipment on campus greatly facilitates handling
the present larger number of students in the depart¬
ment.

Miami University hopes to start construction soon on a new
home for its radio-TV studios,'represented here by this architect's
sketch.

► WTTW, Chicago, telecast its 4000th show May 2
with the presentation of “Ticker Tape” a weekly series
on investments. Since, it began telecasting from its

Museum of Science and Industry studios in December,
1955, WTTW has presented 4000 programs in co¬
operation with 200 Chicago area organizations. The
station reaches an estimated' half million people with
its current schedule of 49 hours a week.

► Plans for an Ohio ETV council,, perhaps leading to
a network between 9 Ohio cities, were announced by
Uberto Neely, general manager of W 7 CET, Cincinnati.
Eventually, according to Mr. Neely, WCET should be
exchanging programs with Akron, Athens, Bowling
Green, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Oxford and
Toledo. It would give Ohio one of the largest ETV
networks in the nation.

► Full-time ETV broadcasting in New York City
moved one step nearer reality when the, META an¬
nounced it will initiate a daily half-hour educational
program over station WPIX in the fall.

► KQED, San Francisco, has been cited as the lead¬
ing producer of programs for the ETRC. Notice ap¬
peared in the May 17th New York Times to the effect
that KQED has 9 individual program contracts for
TV series to be distributed nationally. Two or more
additional contracts are expected. The total will be
about 200 half-hour programs.

KQED productions now being distributed by the
ETRC are: “Buckskin Bob, The Atom, The Ele¬
ments, Tempest in a Test Tube,” and “The American
Economy.”

► The Junior League of Memphis, Tennessee, has
been praised by their National Association for their
excellent assistance in establishing and developing
WKNO, Memphis’ community ETV station. The
job was accomplished by dint of much hard work and
donations over a 6-year period. May we add our con¬
gratulations to Memphis Junior League!

PERSONNEL

► The appointment of Hartford N. Gunn, Jr., as
general manager of Boston’s WGBH-FM-TV, has
been announced. Mr. Gunn, formerly assistant gen¬
eral manager, replaces Parker Wheatley, who has re¬
signed. Resigning at the same time as Mr. Wheatley
were E. G. Sherburne Jr., director of programs, and
Lawrence Creshkoff, assistant director of programs.

Mr. Gunn named three assistant general man¬
agers: Paul Rader, Jack D. Summerfield, and David
M. Davis.

► Dr. Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana Uni¬
versity, was elected for a 5-year term to the Board of
Directors of the ETRC. The Center’s Board elected

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the university president at its spring meeting. His
term begins immediately.

y Mrs. Meryle Renie Evans has been named Ad¬
ministrative Assistant in Promotion and Public Re¬
lations for the Metropolitan Educational TV Associa¬
tion, New York City.

PROGRAMS

y For what is believed the first time in history, high
school students competed in an oratorical contest on
a state-owned TV network.

Cooperating with the American Legion’s 20th An¬
nual Oratorical National Contest, the Alabama ETV
Network cleared a scheduled hour to carry the judg¬
ing of three state finalists.

The Alabama Legion in the past had staged it’s
competition in auditoriums, limiting attendance to
immediate friends, family and instructors of those in
the contest (about 3,000 students enter each year).
By utilizing TV for the finals, it is estimated a min¬
imum of 150,000 watched and cheered their favorites.

y WBUR, Boston University, has produced a unique
radio series, “Project Moon watch,” in cooperation
with the Smithsonian Observatory and the satellite
tracking program. The series features discussions
with the observatory staff and members of the satel¬
lite tracking organization, and they will be heard
this summer on the NAEB network.

TEACHING

y In a questionnaire given teachers who took the
telecourse “Art Skills for Elementary Teachers,”
WKNO-TV, Memphis, found the group agreed that
subjects could be successfully taught on TV: 92%
thought personal contact with instructor was good,
70% felt the home classroom was equal to or better
than the college classroom, and 86% said you can see
and hear better on TV (assuming perfect reception).

However, when asked if a complete curriculum
should be offered on TV and degrees awarded, 68%
of the group said, “No.”

—N A E B—

Miss Judith Waller, long-time NAEB friend,
and honorary member, retired from her position as
NBC Public Affairs representative on April 30. Miss
Waller was the first manager of radio station WMAQ,
and has been in the broadcasting business 35 years.

—NAEB—

Dr. Bert Donnepp, director of the Adult Educa¬
tion Center in Westphalia, Germany, paid a visit to
Headquarters on May 1 to visit Harry Skornia and
Frank Schooley.

TV TECHNICAL TIPS NO. 33

—Cecil S. Bidlack

NAEB TV Engineer

New arrivals are always news! The NAEB Network
is proudly displaying a new Ampex 300 Magnetic
tape recorder which arrived May 6. This new equip¬
ment will permit a thorough overhaul of our present
Ampex machines, in constant service since March,
1953 and gives us a feeling of security in that we now
have a spare.

New monitoring loudspeakers, too, have been
purchased which will provide better reproduction and
permit a better check on the quality of our output.
A complete revamping of the inter rack wiring and
jack field is underway to provide more flexibility, and
ease of testing and checking characteristics.

For those of you who are familiar with Head¬
quarters geography, the “back room” (18c Gregory
Hall) has been rearranged and Network Manager
Bob Underwood has moved his office there. With
the exception of Traffic Manager Peggy Enderby, the
network is now a compact working unit in one room.
We’d like to rearrange the “front” office to provide
more privacy and increased efficiency, but so far no
one has come up with a better floor plan.

*****

The 81st Semi-annual Convention of the Society
of Motion Picture and TV Engineers was held in
Washington, April 29 to May 3. Twenty-three of the
103 papers programmed were on TV subjects.

One of the highlights of this meeting was a visit
to the Closed Circuit Color TV installation at the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where its fine
facilities were described and demonstrated. The
speakers presented their talks over the TV system to
those in attendance in two auditoriums, and were
viewed in full color, projected on 4 x 6 foot screens.

An SMPTE Committee on Closed Circuit TV has
been proposed, and 38 attended an explanatory meet¬
ing to discuss the proposal. A small “ad hoc” com¬
mittee is to be appointed to further consider this pro¬
posal, which will review the discussion, draft a pro¬
posed official scope of interest and an initial proposal
of work to be undertaken.

*****

The 27th Institute for Education by Radio-TV
was held in Columbus May 8-11. Due to the high
interest in teaching by TV, the equipment exhibited
was perhaps the largest display ever to be seen at
this annual meeting. Beginning at the east end of the
mezzanine of the Deshler-Hilton, Jerrold Electronics
exhibited their distribution equipment, Dage dis¬
played their two lines of vidicon equipment and

NEWSLETTER

kinescope recorder; Transvision, its classroom re¬
ceiver; Sarkes-Tarzian had a complete studio control
installation and kinescope recorder; RCA displayed
its new vidicon broadcast type camera with field type
control units; Zenith exhibited a hi-fi combination and
a remotely controlled TV receiver.

A number of engineers were present to participate
in the clinic on equipment for TV teaching.

*****

For those of you who are contemplating the in¬
stallation of a 10 watt educational FM station, Mar¬
shall College has a 10-watt Gates No. B-F-E-10,
MCty-3276, with one MO-3304 set of tubes, one JR-072
crystal and oven, operating frequency 88.1 me. In¬
cluded in the package is 176 feet of new RG 18-TJ
coaxial cable and one FM-11, MO 3429 Single Bay
Broad Band Ring Type Antenna for two and one-half
inch pipe with mounting clamp.

This equipment has never been used and cost new
$1,420.50. They offer the complete package for $1000.
If you are interested in purchasing this transmitter,
write to Mr. Robert H. Maki, Gates Radio Company,
Quincy, Illinois, since the transaction must be com¬
pleted through them.

*****

RCA has developed an electronic orbiting device
to prevent “burn-in” on image orthicon cameras. This
modification kit is available for around $800 and can
be installed within present RCA cameras to ma¬
terially increase the useful life of image orthicons.
*****

Anyone who has gone through the time-consuming
process of installing coaxial connectors on RG-59/U
cable should be interested in a time-saving connector
developed by Entron, Inc., Box 287, Bladensburg,
Md. It’s a solderless connector which can be applied
in a fraction of the time necessary to attach the con¬
ventional solder type connector. The solderless con¬
nectors are less expensive and the two necessary
crimping tools sell at a very nominal price. Entron
makes a complete line of solderless connectors, also,
for RG-6/U, RG-8/U and RG-ll/U cables as well as
the tools necessary for their installation.

The NAEB Planning Committee for the TV Management
Seminar met in Columbus atter the IERT to plan and im¬
plement the up-coming seminar. All members were able to be
present except Raymond Hurlbert. Attending were: George
Arms, Jack McBride, Edwin Browne, Paul Rickard, James Robert¬
son, ex officio Harry Skornia, Harold Hill and Don Feddersen,
representing the ETRC.

WOI-AM-FM, Iowa State, and WKAR, Michigan
State both celebrated a 35th anniversary this spring.
It’s 35 years since WOI’s call letters were assigned,
and it marks 35 years of continuous service from
WKAR to the people of Michigan.

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

The following is excerpted from a letter to Editor Judith Stevens
from Noel F. Brookes, 14, of Worchestershire, England. These are
his personal opinions of what he has seen on TV.

“I don’t watch TV much, except Panorama and
Science Review. I think the other stuff is sheer, un¬
diluted tripe!

“In our home anyway, the family watches the
children’s hour, then has tea and so misses most of the
6-7 p.m. programs. They watch TV AUTO¬
MATICALLY! It’s part of their life.

“I like the educational films, what few there are.
But I think the approach is too crude for the modern
child. My brother, aged 12, remembers the more
lurid incidents in the films and TV he watches. I
think the approach should be more subtle; say dis¬
guise the lesson - have as an instructor a well-known
figure, a cowboy or a pirate, which will appeal to the
juvenile, mind.”

PLACEMENT SUPPLEMENT

June I - Male, single, 47, M. of Public Health, with specialized
training and experience in public health, community affairs,
journalism and dramatics. Can write, edit, adapt, announce,
direct and produce. Location open. $5,000.

June 2 - June radio-TV graduate, male, single, 28, desires
position in educational broadcasting,. At present is con¬
tinuity writer for university station on hourly basis. Location
open. $3600.

June 3 - Producer-writer announcer for educational radio sta¬
tion with 8 years professional broadcasting experience.
Wishes to be judged on basis of programming ideas and
audition tape. Male, 32, single, B.A. Location open. $5500.

June 4 - Man and wife, Ph. D. and M.A., respectively, wish
educational broadcasting experience. Male, 35, currently
teaching and assisting with music program production. His
wife, 32, is director of women's programs on educational
radio station. Location open. $4500 and $2600.

June 5 - Radio-TV production coordinator with considerable
engineering experience (1st class FCC license) wants pro¬
duction position in educational broadcasting. Will teach.
Male, 40, married, M.E. Location open. $5500.

June 6 - Experienced producer, script-writer, announcer for
educational broadcasting programs, children and adults,
desires position in TV production work. Female, 31, M.A. in
Communications. Location open. $4500.

June 7 - Free-lance writer or editor on science and tech¬
nology is available for assignments. Male, single, 50,
Chemical Engineer. Salary to be discussed. Prefers to work
at home but will travel.

June 8 - Film and TV production man with heavy professional
experience wants ETV position. Will be glad to teach.
Hopes to complete graduate training. Male, married, 34,
A.B. Location open. $450/mth,.

June 9 - Associate producer in commercial TV wants change
to ETV as producer or director. Has experience in business,
performing and directing children and adults. Male, 38,
married, M.A. Location, salary open.

June 10 - Director with commercial TV station desires ETV
position as producer-director. Interested in teaching. Male,
23, M.S. (Syracuse), married,. Location open. $85/wk.

June I I - Producer-director and production manager for com¬
mercial TV desires changeover to ETV. Trains personnel,
often designs and builds his own sets. Male, 28, married,
Location open. $7000.

The Radio-TV Bureau of Arizona State College
at Tempe ventured experimentally into color TV
when they televised color slides on their “Campus
Forum” program over KTVK, in Phoenix. The stu-

JUNE, 1957

7

NAEB OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS—1957

President:

Dr. Burton Paulu

Station KUOM

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Secretary:

Mr. Jack McBride

Station KUON-TV
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Vice-

Mr. Richard Hull

Treasurer:

Mr. Robert Coleman

President:

Stations WOSU-AM-FM-TV

The Ohio State University
Columbus 10, Ohio

Stations WKAR-AM-FM
Michigan State Univ.

East Lansing, Michigan

Director

Mr. Arthur Weld, Jr.

Director

Mr. Richard A. Vogl

Region 1:

Station WAER-FM

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York

Region IV:

Stations WOI-AM-FM

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

Director

Mr. Vernon Bronson

Director

Mr. Robert Schenkkan

Region II:

Stations WTHS-FM-TV

Dade County Board of

Public Instruction

Miami, Florida

Region V:

Director

Director, Radio-TV
University of Texas

Austin, Texas

Mr. Edwin Adams

Director

Miss Ola Hiller

Region VI:

School of Communications

Region III:

Station WFBE-FM

Flint Public Schools

Flint, Michigan

Director

University of Wash.
Seattle, Washington

Mrs. Gertrude Broderick

Past

Mr. Frank E. Schooley

at Large:

Radio-TV Section

President:

Stations WILL-AM-FM-TV
University of Illinois

Urbana, Illinois

Office of Education

U. S. Dept, of Health
Education & Welfare
Washington 25, D. C.

General Counsel: Mr. Marcus Cohn

Management and

Mr. M. S. Novik

Cohn and Marks

Community

Room 1200

Cafritz Building

Relations

300 W. 23rd Street

Washington, D. C.

Consultant:

New York II, N. Y.

HEADQUARTERS STAFF

14 Gregory Hall, Urbana, Illinois

Executive Director

Associate Director

Television Engineer

Network Engineer

Placement Officer & Editor

Asst. Network Manager—Production

Asst. Network Manager—Traffic

Secretary

Phone: 7-6611, ext. 3394

Dr. Harry J. Skornia
Mr. Harold E. Hill
Mr. Cecil S. Bidlack
Mr. Robert Underwood, Jr.

Mr. Hans Massaquoi
Mr. Jesse Trump
Mrs. Margaret Enderby
Mrs. Judith Gans

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